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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Dr.Peter Chang" <p-liow-chg@infohq.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: p-liow-ch@infohq.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:59:39 +0800
Subject: Co-operation Required.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this
letter is not an hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious.
I would have given you a call, but rather I decided to contact
you via an email to get us acquainted since it is a safer way
of private communication.
I am Dr. Peter Chang a personal account adviser/officer to
a great late industrialist who has an account in one of the
top banks here in Malaysia. During the course of his bank's
last week auditing,it was discovered that since his death no
one has come forward to lay claims to his funds.So the bank
issued me a memo to provide his next of kin or forfeith the
funds.It has been Six years now,since he died in the year
2000 and nobody has operated on his account.After going
through some old files in my records,I discovered that my
late client died without a [Heir/WILL],hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it
will be forfeited for nothing as the bank was sold on Monday,
19 September 2005 to another bank.Currently,the present
management of the bank is at the point of finalising all
transactions before fully handling over to the new
management which is an added advantage to perfect this
transaction.
These funds will be released to any foreigner with the
accurate information of the account which will be made
known to you immediately you signify your interest to
execute this transaction with me.No other person knows
about this account or anything concerning it as the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation
proved to me as well that the account is a secret account.
As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this money
into a safe foreigner's account abroad for investment but
I don't know any foreigner,hence I am contacting you as
a foreigner because the management of the bank will
welcome any foreigner who has correct information to
this account which I will give you immediately, if you are
interested to do this business with me. I am revealing this
to you with believe in God that you will never let me down
in this business.
Before I will disclose the said amount to you, I must
solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.This
is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential.I
am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability
to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude.I solicit
your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into
your safe account for onward investment.You can either
provide us with an existing account or to set up a new bank
account immediately to receive this money,even an empty
bank account can serve to receive this money, as long as
you will remain honest to me till the end for this important
business trusting in you and believing that you will never
let me down either now or in future.
As soon as I hear from you, and upon your strong assurance
that you will not let me down once the fund goes into your
account I will then start to process the transfer of the
fund to your account without further delay.
If interested contact me urgently for further details.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Peter Chang
Email: p-liow-ch@infohq.com
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